Filing device



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J; w. ELLENWOOD FILING DEVICE Filed Dec. 1, 1923 7 1 7 E .J VELL'ENUJUUD IN V EN TOR.

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Patented Dec. 23, 1924.

JAY W. ELLENWOOD, OF PACIFIC GROVE, CALIFORNIA.

FILING DEVICE.

Application filed December 1, 1923. Serial No. 678,048.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAY W. ELLnNwooD, a citizen of the United States residing at Pacific Grove, in the county of Monterey and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Filing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in tiling devices and has particular reference to a device for employment with the ordinary desk file having a sharp pointed spike.

Another objectis to produce a file which will act as a binder for the papers after they are removed from the file proper and also to provide means whereby the customary sharp point of the spike will be protected so as to prevent injury to a person using the same.

A further object is to produce a device which is simple in construction and there fore cheap to manufacture.

Other objects and advantages will be ap parent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts tl'iroughout the same,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a desk file having my device applied thereto and shown in cross section,

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary detail view showing the telescoping arrangement of my device, and

Figure 3 is a side elevation of my device on a reduced scale removed from the desk file and closed so as to retain papers thereon.

Figure 4; is a side elevation of the desk file as it appears when removed from my device.

Desk files have been in common use for many years, which desk files usually consist of a base having an upwardly projecting spike or prong having a sharp end. Many serious accidents have occurred because of the user coming into contact with this pointed end, and I have therefore sought to provide a protector to eliminate accidents and also provide means for removing the papers from the file at the same time preventing the papers from scattering and their consequent loss.

In the accompanying drawings wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 5 designates the base of a file having a spike 6 which spike is provided with a sharpened end 7. This construction is common to most desk files, and my improvement consists in a tubular member 8 adapted to slide upon the spike 6 and to terminate at a point 9, which point is a suitable distance below the pointed end 7 of the spike 6.

At 11, I have shown a horizontal portion secured to the tubular member 8 and adapted to contact the base 5. This portion 11 is curved as shown at 12 and terminates in an upwardly projecting end 13, within which is mounted a pin 14:. This pin la is adapted to move in a slot 16 of a sliding member 17 which is centrally bored as shown at 18. This sliding member thus telescopes upon the end 13, as will hereinafter be described.

The member 17 is provided with a curved portion 19 and terminates in an end 21 to which is riveted or otherwise secured a bellshaped protector 22.

The device thus described operates in the following manner In use the device is placed upon the file as shown in Figure l, with the result that it is impossible for the user to accidentally come into contact with the sharp point 7 of the file. At the same time, papers may be introduced beneath the bell-shaped protector 22, and then brought into contact with the end 17 and thence forced downwardly over the same and onto the tubular member 8. After a given quantity of papers have been placed on the file and it is desired to remove the same, the device is grasped and moved upwardly with the result that the tubular member 8 is withdrawn from the spike 6 carrying with it the papers which may be filed thereon. After the removal. the. portions 11 and 21 are forced toward each other and consequently into telescoping action between the portions 13 and 17, thus further result ing in the bell-shaped protector 22 coming into contact with the end 9 of the tubular member 8 as shown in Figure 3.

It will thus be seen that I have provided a very simple means and one which will ac complish all the objects above set forth.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described to be taken as a preferred example of the same, and that various changes in the shape. size and arrangement of parts may be re sorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claim.

Having thus described my claim In combination With a letter file having a base, a spike secured thereto, a substantially invention, I

I L-shaped member having a tubular portion adapted to telescope said spike, a second sub stantially L-shaped member slidably engaging the free end of said first-mentioned L- shaped member, a bell-shaped element secured to the free end of said second-mentioned L-shaped member and in alignment with the end of said tubular portion, and means for limiting the sliding engagement between said L-shaped members.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

JAY W. ELLENWOOD. 

